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Jurors: 300-plus Priests Abused Scores of Kids in Pennsylvania

More than 300 Catholic priests sexually abused at least 1,000 children over the last 70 years and church leaders did all they could to cover it up, a Pennsylvania grand jury report released Tuesday said.

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Multilateralism: The only path to address the world’s troubles, signals Guterres

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Secretary-General António Guterres (center) meets with Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh.

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Militias force nearly 2,000 to leave Libyan capital’s largest shelter for internally-displaced: UNHCR

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After receiving threats and many houses being demolished by a local militia, Tawergha displaced people desperately pack their belongings to leave the Triq al Matar settlement in Libya. 10 August 2018.

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EU helps WFP sustain food lifeline in Gaza as hardships mount

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Palestine welcomed a contribution of €2.95 million (US$3.6 million) from the European Union to support critical food assistance to severely vulnerable Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

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WFP dstributes 7,000 fuel-efficient stoves to improve the lives of displaced women in Banki

The World Food Programme (WFP), together with its partner INTERSOS, has distributed fuel-efficient stoves to 7,340 displaced families receiving WFP food assistance in the town of Banki, in Nigeria’s Borno state. The stoves distribution is an effort to improve people’s quality of life and reduce the protection risks faced by women and girls in particular, when they have to gather firewood from unsafe areas.

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Korean Leaders to Hold Summit Next Month in Pyongyang

North and South Korea say their respective leaders will meet in North's capital of Pyongyang sometime next month.

The announcement was made Monday after the two sides held high-level talks in Panmunjom, the truce village in the border zone that separates the autocratic North from the democratic South.

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Actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw meets refugees in Rwanda with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency

British Hollywood actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw met with refugees this week in Rwanda’s Mahama and Gihembe refugee camps, on her first trip with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

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Statement by Italian OSCE Chair’s Special Representative for South Caucasus on 10th anniversary of ceasefire in 2008 war in Georgia

Special Representative of the Italian Chairperson-in-Office for the South Caucasus, Ambassador Günther Bächler, on August 12, the following statement on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the ceasefire in the 2008 war in Georgia

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UNICEF appeals for end to ‘war on children’ in Syria and Yemen

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The escalating hostilities in southwest Syria endanger some 750,000 people - almost half of them children, like these boys pictured here, who have fled violence in Deraa.

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Anti-Racist Protesters Far Outnumber White Supremacists at Washington Rally

Anti-racist protesters far outnumbered the handful of white supremacists who rallied across from the White House Sunday while police kept both sides apart.